LORNA SAGE
Good As Her Word
Selected Journalism
Edited by Sharon Sage and Victor Sage
For Olivia
Contents
Grave-side story, Observer 18 June 1978
Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley by Jane Dunn
Good as her word, Observer 14 December 1980
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Portrait in Letters by J. A. V. Chapple
Flora by gaslight, Observer 24 January 1982
The London Journal of Flora Tristan Jean Hawkes (trans. and ed.)
Life stories, 19 February 1984
A Need to Testify: Four Portraits by Iris Origo
Strategy for survival, Observer 10 June 1984
Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling
Honest woman, Observer 5 May 1985
Selections from George Eliot’s Letters Gordon S. Haight (ed.)
The girl from Mrs Kelly’s, Observer 28 September 1986
Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser
Half of Shandy, Observer 28 December 1986
Laurence Sterne: The Later Years by Arthur H. Cash
Nothing by halves, Observer 20 November 1988
The Letters of Edith Wharton R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis (eds)
The bright, ferocious flames of his internal ether, Observer 27 June 1993
The Letters Of Charles Dickens: Volume VII, 1853–1855, The Pilgrim Edition Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and Angus Easson (eds)
First person singular, Observer 12 August 1979
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
Client relationships, TLS 5 November 1982
An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne by Paul Bailey
Orient of the mind, Observer 23 October 1983
Profile of Lesley Blanch
Last testament, Observer 17 June 1984
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
What a frightful bore it is to be Gore, Observer 15 November 1987
Profile of Gore Vidal
Obituary of Mary McCarthy
The deb who caught her muse, Observer 20 January 1991
Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart
The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Death of the Author, Granta 41, 1991
Obituary essay Angela Carter
The man they mistook for Marcel Proust, Observer 18 August 1991
Obituary of Terry Kilmartin
Boy in a box springs forth, Observer 28 March 1993
Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster
The secret sharer, Independent On Sunday 25 April 1993
What Remains and Other Stories
The Writer’s Dimension: Selected Essays by Christa Wolf
In full spate, TLS 17 December 1993
Obituary of Anthony Burgess
Secret agonies and allergies, Guardian 24 April 1994
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art: Selected Letters Robert Giroux (ed.)
Home is where the art is, south of the psyche, Observer 15 May 1994
The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer by Paul Binding
Surviving in the wrong, TLS 4 November 1994
The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm